About

Known credits:
14
Birthday:
1978-03-25
Place of birth:
La Tronche, Isère, France
Website:
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Teddy Lussi-Modeste

Overview

Teddy Lussi-Modeste (born 25 March 1978) is a French Romani film director, screenwriter and literature teacher. He wrote and directed the films Jimmy Rivière (2011), The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024).

Lussi-Modeste grew up in La Tronche, Grenoble, in a Sinti, Manush Romani community in France.

Lussi-Modeste studied cinema at the film school La Fémis in Paris. He later became a literature teacher in high schools and colleges, before devoting himself entirely to cinema in the late 2000s.

Lussi-Modeste started his career as a film director in 2004 with the short film Kissing Tigers. In 2011, he released his feature directorial debut, the drama Jimmy Rivière. He later wrote and directed the drama films The Price of Success (2017), and The Good Teacher (2024). Lussi-Modeste also co-wrote the screenplay of Rebecca Zlotowski's 2019 comedy drama film An Easy Girl, and Maïwenn's 2023 historical drama film Jeanne du Barry.

In the 2020s, Lussi-Modeste kept working as a French teacher at a school in Aubervilliers in the Seine-Saint-Denis department, the northeastern suburbs of Paris.

Source: Article "Teddy Lussi-Modeste" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known for

Acting

2023 Jeanne du Barry Actor Le médecin La Martinière 64
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Directing

2024 The Good Teacher Directing Director 60
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2017 The Price of Success Directing Director 58
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2011 Jimmy Rivière Directing Director 58
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2009 I'm Coming Directing Director 59
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2005 Courts mais Gay : Tome 10 Directing Director N/A
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2004 Kissing Tigers Directing Director 59
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Writing

2024 The Good Teacher Writing Screenplay 60
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2023 Jeanne du Barry Writing Writer 64
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2019 An Easy Girl Writing Writer 57
Average
2017 The Price of Success Writing Scenario Writer 58
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2011 Jimmy Rivière Writing Screenplay 58
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2009 I'm Coming Writing Screenplay 59
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2004 Kissing Tigers Writing Screenplay 59
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